Birth: April 16, 1927
The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation..
Grace, lavished upon us by God and communicated through the Mystery of the Incarnate Word, is an absolutely free gift with which nature is healed, st….
A united humanity will be able to confront the many troubling problems of the present time: from the menace of terrorism to the humiliating poverty i….
The highest things, the things that really matter, we cannot achieve on our own; we have to accept them as gifts and enter in to the dynamic of the g….
It is true that the Muslim world is not totally mistaken when it reproaches the West of Christian tradition of moral decadence and the manipulation o….
Discovering the beauty and joy of faith is a path that every new generation must take on its own..
Advent, this powerful liturgical season that we are beginning, invites us to pause in silence to understand a presence. It is an invitation to unders….
Love alone makes us happy, because we live in relation, and we live to love and to be loved..
Being a Christian means having love. That is unbelievably difficult and, at the same time, incredibly simple..
Material possessions, in themselves, are good. We would not survive for long without money, clothing and shelter. We must eat in order to stay alive.….
The discernment of a vocation is above all the fruit of an intimate dialogue between the Lord and his disciples. Young people, if they know how to pr….
Again and again it astonishes us that God makes himself a child so that we may love him, so that we may dare to love him, and as a child trustingly l….
Many of our brothers and sisters are 'baptized, but insufficiently evangelized.' In a number of cases, nations once rich in faith and in vocations ar….
The Cardinals have elected me, a simple and humble labourer in the vineyard of the Lord. The fact that the Lord knows how to work and to act even wit….
With the Synod Assembly, therefore, I heartily recommend to the Church's pastors and to the People of God the practice of Eucharistic Adoration, both….
Respecting the environment does not mean considering material or animal nature more important than man. Rather, it means not selfishly considering na….
In the desert we rediscover the value of what is essential for living; thus in today's world there are innumerable signs, often expressed implicitly ….
Thanks to being profoundly rooted in Christ, he was able to bear a burden which transcends merely human abilities..
I believe that the most important thing...is to revive in the whole Church that positive tension, that yearning to announce Christ again to contempor….
Each generation, as it seeks to advance the common good, must ask anew: 'What are the requirements that governments may reasonably impose upon citize….
I say to you dear young people: Do not be afraid of Christ! He takes nothing away, and He gives you verything. When we give ourselves to him, we rece….